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16-letter words containing c, o, e, v, l

  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • device control 1 — control-Q
  • device control 2 — (character)   (DC2) The mnemonic for ASCII character 18, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • device control 3 — control-S
  • device control 4 — (character)   (DC4) The mnemonic for ASCII character 20, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
  • executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
  • explosive device — a device, such as a bomb, that explodes or bursts loudly and with great force
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
  • franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
  • inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
  • inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
  • incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
  • interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
  • intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
  • juvenile officer — a police officer concerned with juvenile delinquents.
  • kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
  • lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
  • letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
  • level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
  • lose one's voice — If you lose your voice, you cannot speak for a while because of an illness.
  • luncheon voucher — a voucher worth a specified amount issued to employees and redeemable at a restaurant for food
  • male-voice choir — a choir of male singers
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • memorial service — ceremony held in commemoration
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • molecular volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a substance
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • nevado de colima — a volcano in SW Mexico, in Jalisco state. Height: 4339 m (14 235 ft)
  • nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
  • new haven colony — a settlement founded in 1638 by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton at Quinnipiac (now New Haven, Conn.).
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
  • non-conventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
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